Environmental sustainability - pathways to sustainable intensive care

Dr Marlies Ostermann is a consultant in critical care and nephrology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Reader at King’s College London. She is also the Research and Delivery lead for Critical Care at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and has been appointed as a clinical co-lead for our NIHR BRC’s transplantation theme. In recognition of her role in the advancement of intensive care Marlies has recently been appointed as one of three new Directors of Research within the Intensive Care Society.

She is very active in research and collaborates with colleagues nationally and internationally and has a specialist interest in acute kidney injury (kidney failure) and critical care nephrology. Marlies is also committed to teaching and education, and strongly believes that science is for everybody.

Nicole's field of expertise in research is ICU pharmacology and medication safety. She works together with ICU medical staff members in unravelling questions about ICU pharmacology. Another research field is medication safety. she has joined multiple projects about this topic.

• Her thesis (2010) involved pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and pharmacogenetics of proton pump inhibitors. Her PhD project was supervised by Prof Dr Ernst Kuipers.
• After her thesis she specialized in Intensive Care clinical pharmacology, especially in the topics pharmacokinetics of antibiotics and the efficacy of haloperidol in delirium.

Prof. Jan De Waele is a surgery-trained intensivist with a specific interest in severe infections in critically ill patients and works at the surgical ICU of the Ghent University Hospital in Belgium. Clinical interests include antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial stewardship in the ICU. His research activities currently focus on optimizing antibiotic therapy in severely ill infected patients to improve outcome and combat resistance development. He is active in several societies; he is currently chairing the Infection Section of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and president of the Belgian Society of Intensive Care Medicine.

Dr Ricard Ferrer is Head of the Intensive Care Department at Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, Spain.  He graduated in 1992 from the University of Barcelona, Medical School, and pursued his specialisation in Intensive Care, from 1994 to 1998, and his PhD title in 2010 from the Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona. He is Past President of the Spanish Society of Intensive Critical Care Medicine and Coronary Units (SEMICYUC) and member of the steering committee of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign.